As we Baby Boomers move through middle age and toward our dotage, one phenomenon is becoming sadly more common: mutton dressed as lamb. And unlike most media pundits, I am by no means singling out women with this description.
People born from 1946 to 1964, listen up: Stop dressing as if you were 18. It's unseemly, unattractive, and just so wrong.
Living as I do between two popular lakes, I am faced with examples of this at every turn. Yes Boomers, once we could pull off hot pants and Speedos, but those days are gone. If you care even the tiniest bit about your personal dignity, you will accept your sartorial limitations.
Women over 45: No crop tops, tube tops, or sports bras. This also goes for the miniature garment my teenage daughter calls booty shorts.
Men born before the Nixon administration: No one wants to see your pale, flabby torso jiggling around Lake Harriet. I beg you—put on a shirt! And take off those Lance Armstrong bike shorts--but no! Not in front of me!
It's hard to admit that our time in the sun, especially our time spent partially clothed in the sun, is over. But wearing that mini-skirt or those board shorts isn't going to make it come back. It's only going to make you look ridiculous.
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Mutton dressed as lamb. Good one. And too true.
this made me laugh and laugh!! (especially the term "bootie shorts.")
i HATE bicycle shorts. or leggings worn as though they are pants. or men over the age of about 25 who go without shirts.
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